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an·te·lope
(ăn′tl-ōp′)n. pl. antelope or an·te·lopes
1.
a. Any of various swift-running ruminant mammals of the family Bovidae, native to Africa and Eurasia and having unbranched horns.
b. A pronghorn.
2. Leather made from antelope hide.
[Middle English, a savage-looking heraldic beast with hoofs and sawlike horns (possibly originally based on the Arabian oryx), ultimately (partly via Old French antelop) from Medieval Latin anthalopus, from Late Greek antholops, of unknown origin.]
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antelope
(ˈæntɪˌləʊp)n, pl -lopes or -lope
1. (Animals) any bovid mammal of the subfamily Antilopinae, of Africa and Asia. They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the gazelles, springbok, impala, gerenuk, blackbuck, and dik-diks
2. (Animals) any of various similar bovids of Africa and Asia
3. (Animals) American antelope another name for pronghorn
[C15: from Old French antelop, from Medieval Latin antalopus, from Late Greek antholops a legendary beast]
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an•te•lope
(ˈæn tlˌoʊp)n., pl. -lopes, (esp. collectively) -lope.
1. any of several ruminants of the family Bovidae, chiefly of Africa and Asia, having permanent, hollow, unbranched horns.
2. pronghorn.
3. leather made from the hide of an antelope.
[1400–50; < Middle French < Medieval Latin antalopus < Medieval Greek anthólops a fabulous beast]
an`te•lo′pi•an, an`te•lo′pine (-pɪn, -paɪn) adj.
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| Noun | 1. |  antelope - graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diksbovid - hollow-horned ruminants Antilope cervicapra, black buck, blackbuck - common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns gerenuk, Litocranius walleri - slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns addax, Addax nasomaculatus - large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa gnu, wildebeest - large African antelope having a head with horns like an ox and a long tufted tail dik-dik - any of several small antelopes of eastern Africa of the genus Madoqua; the size of a large rabbit hartebeest - a large African antelope with lyre-shaped horns that curve backward Damaliscus lunatus, sassaby, topi - a large South African antelope; considered the swiftest hoofed mammal Aepyceros melampus, impala - African antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps gazelle - small swift graceful antelope of Africa and Asia having lustrous eyes Boocercus eurycerus, Tragelaphus eurycerus, bongo - large forest antelope of central Africa having a reddish-brown coat with white stripes and spiral horns harnessed antelope - any of several antelopes of the genus Tragelaphus having striped markings resembling a harness mountain nyala, Tragelaphus buxtoni - shaggy antelope of mountains of Ethiopia blue bull, Boselaphus tragocamelus, nilgai, nylghai, nylghau - large Indian antelope; male is blue-grey with white markings; female is brownish with no horns Hippotragus niger, sable antelope - large black East African antelope with sharp backward-curving horns saiga, Saiga tatarica - goat-like antelope of central Eurasia having a stubby nose like a proboscis eland - either of two large African antelopes of the genus Taurotragus having short spirally twisted horns in both sexes waterbuck - any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e.g. swamps and rivers Adenota vardoni, puku - an African antelope closely related to the waterbuck |
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antelope
(ˈӕntələup) – plurals ˈantelopes ~ˈantelope – noun any of several types of quick-moving, graceful, horned animal related to the goat and cow. a herd of antelope.antílope
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